Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-16

COUNCIL Is 10 OlQer eleCtlOnS, 6DO ID
special elections ten days. notice shsn be
deemed sufficient. In case of vacancy OF
any other Office in the city than mayor or
alderman, by refusal to accept or failure
to qualify, or by death, resignation or
otherwise, the mayor shall FIJI such va
cancy by appointment, to be confirmed
by the city cou Gil.
The House Concurred in Senate amend
ment to House bill No. 10 amending the
stock law as amended by the acts Of
April 4, 1881, and April y, 1888. The
bill exempts numerous counties frGm the
inspection of stock.
House bill No. 202, amending the law
for the better protection OF public bridges,
passed.
Also House bill No 54S, amending arti-
Gle 1883 Of the statutes, SO as to req uire
the records of deeds, etc, to be kept IN
both counties where one county is al
tached to &Lother for judicial purposes.
Senate bill requiring railroads to make
openings and fence crossings along their
right Of way passed to third reading.
Senate bill No. II, providing for the
sale of scrap lands of less than $40 acres,
was discussed. An amendment reducing
the quantity to 800 acres or less was con-
Cured in.
Pending further amendments the hour
for the special order, the general land
bill of the House and Senate, arrived, the
pending question being the substitution
of the House bill for the Senate
bill. Both bills vest in the Land
Commissioner the power to sell and
lease the lands, and the Senate bill pro
vides for agents TO classify and value the
lands and subjects the lands to sale, but
10 actual settlers only, and in quantities
of not less that 100 acres, and in multiples
thereof, nor more than $40 acres, except
that fraction OF section may be sold
An actual settler may buy not over four
| sections of pasture lands. In no event
shall sale be made to corporation,
either foreign or dOmestic-s9le by al
actual settler to corporation to work 6
! forfeit of the land to the state. Leases
are to be made for not more than five
J years at not less than cents an acre,
payable each year in advance. The price
| for dry lands is not less than
| 81, watered lands not less than s.
! and timbered lands not less than So psi
acre. Any bona fde settler owning one
! section and no more prior to this act
shall have the right to purchase three dry
pastoral sections.
The House bill fixes the prices abso
| lutely at 81 an acre for dry, SO for wa
tered aud IS for timbered lands. A head
CT family or person twenty-ene years Of
age NAV purchase not less than 100 acres
nor more than $40 acres, unless in cases
of fractions of sections and sec
! lions larger than GAO acres. Leases shall
hn ntyn q
! a fixed price of cents for pasture lands
payable in advance.
Mr.. Tate spoke in favor of the House
! bill, and Messrs. Showalter and Nc
! Gaughey against it and in favor Of the
Senate bill.
! Mr.. Tate Contended that il the Legisla
! ture wanted to turn these lands over t.
the cattle barons in perpetuity the!
should adopt the Senate bill, and that IN
der its actual settler clause the cattlemeg
could held all the land they needed.
Mr.. Showalter argued that under the
House bill the lands would be neithe
leased nor sold. j m4I
would get $40 acres ana turn out
| thousand head of cattle all sround it.
was free grass Gill and not enough l2n(
would be leased under the bill II pay 70
the appropriation of $50, goo proposed L
! cover expenses.
Mr.. McGaughey did not beleve that tn
state wanted to Cypress and limit TIT
people IN the western part OF the state t
/ one section Of land.
The people there could not sub jst thei
! families on q single section, SO be favored
the Senate bill.
Pending discussion the House al
jOurned till O'Clock
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House this afternoon resumed con
! sideratiOn of the land bills.
| Mr. Browning spoke in favor Of tn
| House bill and argued that under IN
Senate bill the land commission cOu.t
! lease cut ell the lands of the state, mil
lions of acres, 70 the exclusion Of settlers
Mr.. Prendargast spoke in favor Of To
Senate bill.
Mr.. Kjrlicks took the same side.
Mr.. Bell of Denton defended the Hous
bill. He quoted from q veto OF GO7ernO
Ireland as an argument mat the SenRt
bill was not constitutional, and tna
the disposition Of the puUlic domsiI
could not be embraced iu the same bill
with the school and other lands.
A vote was fnally taken on the motion
of Mr. Moore Of Travis to reject the r.
port of the committee, whlch was &
substitute the House bill for the Senat
bill. The motion preyailed-yeas, 81
nays, %.
Adjourned.